PERTH AMBOY — The Perth Amboy Board of Education has voted to end its lengthy fight with Superintendent Janine Caffrey by rescinding her suspension.

On Thursday, the nine-member board — with three new members elected in November and two re-elected — rescinded a resolution it adopted Sept. 23 that placed Caffrey on administrative leave with pay, and notified her she would not be reappointed at the end of her term in June 2014.

Caffrey remained on the job, however, because several weeks after the vote, Assistant Education Commissioner Barrier Erlichson ordered her back to work, saying the vote was premature because a state decision was pending on an earlier board vote.

“We have a great new board,” Caffrey, who earns $175,000 a year and is in the second year of a three-year contract, said. “I’m hopeful this is a signal that we can end this. I feel like I have a load off my shoulders.”

The board last year voted twice to remove Caffrey and she appealed it to the state. Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf rejected both votes, April 25 and May 7, but the May 7 vote was upheld on Sept. 12, by a state administrative law judge. Cerf had 45 days to adopt, modify or reject that ruling, but after the board voted again on Sept. 23, the case returned to the administrative law judge where it remains.

Caffrey said attorneys for her and the board are working out the details — now that the September vote has been rescinded — to dismiss the cases before the law judge and the commissioner, including ethics charges she filed against five of the board members last year.

The board had accused Caffrey of insubordination and of damaging staff morale, charges Caffrey called baseless.

Mark Carvajal, the current board president, could not be reached for comment.